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TIL I learned the moon looks upside down in Australia

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x9W5 TIL there’s a tribe in the Amazonas state in Brazil that do not engage in linear thinking and have no words for colors or numbers.
PQaV TIL someone wrote a full 300+ page thesis on Micheal Bay’s Transformers trilogy, going into detail on how Optimus is a murderer and Megatron is a tragic hero.
OGY8e TIL Frankenstein is not the name of The Monster; Dr. Frankenstein's assistant (1931) is named Fritz; and neither Fritz nor Igor appears in the 1818 book by Mary Shelley.
epg65 TIL in March 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown shipped himself to freedom in a 3-foot by 2-foot crate from his master’s home in Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, earning himself the nickname “Box”
DQwev TIL some clams can live for more than 500 years (Ming, a Quahog clam lived to 507)